From: | "wingsprd" <wingsprd(at)goldenwest.net> |
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Date: | Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:03:31 -0700 |
Subject: | RE: [WDDM] Fwd: RE:LINK. |
The Direct Democracy Movement needs to be about developing the
capacity for
citizens to choose the issues they wish to vote on -- whether that is
world peace
or banning crunchy peanut butter -- and then making sure that those
decisions
are binding on their legislators. The movement must never advocate a
specific
policy, or it will lose all credibility. DDM must focus only on the
mechanism.
B. Thomas Marking
admin1(at)FirstDemocracy.org
-----Original Message-----
*From:* Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan
[vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:38 PM
*To:* wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
*Subject:* Re: RE: [WDDM] Fwd: RE:LINK.
Dear all,
The past few opinions on whether we should link up with a peace
initiative highlights the key problems facing WDDM.
Nicholas Durand has pointed out that we should be concerned with
promoting Direct Democracy rather than peace, human rights, gender
equality etc. This raises the philosophical question - whether
promoting Direct Democracy is synonymous with promoting these human
values. Taking a broad view and if we speak from the heart it is
'yes'. This is why Nicholas himself says he is for peace at the end of
his post. However there is always the tendency to allow the mind to
supercede the heart and make it the deciding authority. Inevitably the
mind sees several issues in it and wants to tackle each one separately
and not mix them up together.
If only if we think and act from our heart then then we would tend to
integrate matters. Problems would tend to get simplified rather than
multiplied. Blind faith is also dangerous. An enlightened approach is
needed. Georges Metanomski's caution is worth noting. However
everything in this world is action and reaction. If only there is an
enlightened focus on peace then the agressiveness of the
action-reaction cycle would come down paving the way for lasting peace.
PVR
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 Nicolas Durand wrote :
Dear all,
I also support the idea of using our normal decisional process.
But this raises an interesting concept issue (and you know that I am an
endless supporter of peace):
Who should we partner with?
If a neo-Nazi party wants to send a petition to the UN to commemorate
Hitler's death date, will we support this?
I take an extreme example to make my point: our aim is to promote direct
democracy, not peace, human rights, gender equality and the like. HOPEFULLY,
the people will WANT peace, human rights, gender equality, etc., but is it
really up to US to promote these values?
We could have a "current petitions" links page with all DD real-world
examples, but then, we must be ready to put ALL DD initiatives on it.
Just my opinion. Again, I want peace as well!
Take care,
Nico
-----Original Message-----
From: mantell
Sent: jeudi, 28. février 2008 06:24
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net; wddm(at)mkolar.org;
Nicolas Durand; George L. Kokkas Law Office
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Fwd: RE:LINK.
Hello Mirek,
I like your idea. I'll support it.
But I'd like to use our normal decisional process. Why not do this by a
vote of the executive board? If the executive board buys the idea
quickly, then we could act immediately thereafter. Passage by the
executive board would normally be followed by a membership-wide
referendum to validate the executive board action more permanently.
So, I recommend that we use our charter mechanism for action. It would
be the right thing, both for this issue, and for dealing with future
issues.
Mark
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Miroslav Kolar wrote:Do you have any objections to join the WDDM site into the network of
global peace activists suggested by http://www.peace365.org ? :
----- Forwarded message from marekmzielinski(at)hotmail.co.uk -----
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:57:55 +0000
From: marek zielinski
Subject: RE:LINK.
Dear Peace Activists,
Would there be any obstacle to link our web-sites together
since the aims of activities of our organizations lead the the same goal:
GLOBAL PEACE FOREVER,
Please send me a .jpg form of your organization's Logo
In Peace
Marek Zielinski
Initiator of www.peace365.org